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. >> that crash involved a big rig and a shuttle driving employees to san francisco general hospital. they collided in oak street during the commute. and a 52-year-old psychiatrist was ejected from the shuttle and died from injuries. he was an expert in psychotic disorders. three other people were hurt. one resident says that intersection is dangerous. >> this car will not stop. red light comes on, they're going through it. it's like really dangerous in front of my house, too. i have called city hall. the neighborhood called. no one will listen to us. >> and city supervisor says he heard a lot of complaints about traffic in that area and says the city commissioned a study of traffic pattern there's. >> police trying to identify the body of a woman found burning on a street in an upscale neighborhood. neighbors reported something burning in the middle of ivan hoe road around 4:30 this morning. and firefighters called police immediately. investigators believe it was dumped there, then set on fire. and upsetting news for residents in this peaceful part of town. >> body on fire? oh, my go
. >> that crash involved a big rig and a shuttle driving employees to san francisco general hospital. they collided in oak street during the commute. and a 52-year-old psychiatrist was ejected from the shuttle and died from injuries. he was an expert in psychotic disorders. three other people were hurt. one resident says that intersection is dangerous. >> this car will not stop. red light comes on, they're going through it. it's like really dangerous in front of my house, too. i...
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the really big chicken sandwich combo is back! and it's as big as ever. i'm gonna jump it! you can't jump that! it's two chicken patties, topped with bacon, and melting cheese plus seasoned curly fries and a drink for only $3.99! what do you know? your only a baby! vrrrrooooom! i'm t-rex and i came out of extinction cuz i heard the combo was back! and that got a million hits? yep. why do we even make commercials anymore? 'cause you like to be in them. no. >> the time is 6:80 a.m.. we are dealing with low cloud cover over san francisco. it is going to be another cool day this afternoon and breezy. let's talk a little bit about what we see with the fall. it is not dense but still at the coastline. most of what you are seeing here is low cloud cover. 54 in san francisco, still cool in the north bay. perfect fairfield is a touch warmer than yesterday. today it will be 76. rare product right about 60 degrees in downtown san francisco. 64 in oakland., red and the south bay, low-and the '70s. we have been watching the 7 day forecast and anticipating a warming trend. it will kick i
the really big chicken sandwich combo is back! and it's as big as ever. i'm gonna jump it! you can't jump that! it's two chicken patties, topped with bacon, and melting cheese plus seasoned curly fries and a drink for only $3.99! what do you know? your only a baby! vrrrrooooom! i'm t-rex and i came out of extinction cuz i heard the combo was back! and that got a million hits? yep. why do we even make commercials anymore? 'cause you like to be in them. no. >> the time is 6:80 a.m.. we are...
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i think that just how high up it goes is a big question and it's one we shouldn't be jumping to conclusions about. >> speaking of hacking, somebody absolutely plundered the pentagon in the spring, it was one of the worst breaches ever of security. listen to these details. >> indeed, in a single intrusion this past march, 24,000 files were taken. >> it was done, we think, by a foreign intelligence service, in other words, a nation state was behind it. >> now, those files belonged to a u.s. defense contractor, that's 24,000 good reasons why the defense department is looking at tightening up its cyber security. casey anthony leaves jail in two more days, just in time to face a defamation lawsuit. anthony told police that she had a nanny back when the search was getting under way. the woman's lawyers want anthony to sit down for a deposition tuesday. they think it's the only chance they'll get before she bolts orlando and maybe florida. anthony's lawyers say no way, that is too soon after a gruelling trial and she'll plead the fifth if asked questions. >>> governor jerry brown has signed a bill
i think that just how high up it goes is a big question and it's one we shouldn't be jumping to conclusions about. >> speaking of hacking, somebody absolutely plundered the pentagon in the spring, it was one of the worst breaches ever of security. listen to these details. >> indeed, in a single intrusion this past march, 24,000 files were taken. >> it was done, we think, by a foreign intelligence service, in other words, a nation state was behind it. >> now, those files...
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a big area company that has been the topic of takeover rumors now has a big. one of clorox's biggest share owners. >>> we are hearing about what osama bin laden was planning to do on the upcoming tenth anniversary of the september 11th attacks. >>> this is a look at the golden gate bridge. traffic looking good as you make your way into san francisco. we'll have more traffic ahead. >>> time now 5:13. we know what osama bin laden was planning to do when he was killed. that is according to information that u.s. navy seals seized from bin laden's compound in pakistan. reportedly those plans were still being formed. the communications info includes exchanges between bin laden and operations chief where they talked about the names of possible attack team members. >>> at 8:00 this morning we will hear president obamas take on how the debt limit talks are going. he is scheduled a news conference for the second time this week. ktvu alison burns is live in our washington, d.c. newsroom to talk about where the negotiations stand. allison. >> reporter: pam as house speake
a big area company that has been the topic of takeover rumors now has a big. one of clorox's biggest share owners. >>> we are hearing about what osama bin laden was planning to do on the upcoming tenth anniversary of the september 11th attacks. >>> this is a look at the golden gate bridge. traffic looking good as you make your way into san francisco. we'll have more traffic ahead. >>> time now 5:13. we know what osama bin laden was planning to do when he was killed....
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remember that big balloon that was part of a big hoax. you may remember this balloon it captured the country's attention. a couple in colorado falsely claimed their son floated away in this balloon. the couple recently put the balloon up for auction. they wanted a million dollars for it. they got $2,500 for it. the money will go to japanese earthquake and tsunami relief. >>> mayor progress -- major progress is being made in the nfl locks. a ten tiff agreement could come within 24 hours. yesterday a ten tiff deal was reached on the major sticking point. team owners are expected to meet next thursday and can could take a rad phi case vote if an agreement is reached. >> round two of the british open is under way. this morning all eyes were on 20-year-old tom lewis. yesterday the young british golfer became the first amateur to share the lead at the british open since 1968. but this morning lewis got two of the first six holes in round two. he has now given up a top spot. right now north ireland's daron clark is tied but one stroke back at th
remember that big balloon that was part of a big hoax. you may remember this balloon it captured the country's attention. a couple in colorado falsely claimed their son floated away in this balloon. the couple recently put the balloon up for auction. they wanted a million dollars for it. they got $2,500 for it. the money will go to japanese earthquake and tsunami relief. >>> mayor progress -- major progress is being made in the nfl locks. a ten tiff agreement could come within 24...
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i think the big confirmation for this month is i didn't die and i didn't get married. it's a one-two shot. >> what is it like when you read about your own death on twitter? i haven't had that experience yet. did you find it funny? was it a bit disconcerting? >> my response was, you know, it happened to mark twain so i quoted mark twain's comment, that rumors of his death demise were greatly exaggerated. >> let's move back to when you were last in my studio. because we had -- >> it was only yesterday. >> it was a great interview. crystal was with you and everything seemed absolutely happy. there seemed no reason why this wasn't going to be a great hollywood wedding. you very kindly invited me. i was looking forward to it and everything else. what happened? that's what everybody wants to know. the first television interview you've given. what went wrong? >> well, you know, that is the number one question. and i don't have an answer for it. i really don't know what happened. i think that in time, the rest of the story will play out. but -- we took a trip to london -- i th
i think the big confirmation for this month is i didn't die and i didn't get married. it's a one-two shot. >> what is it like when you read about your own death on twitter? i haven't had that experience yet. did you find it funny? was it a bit disconcerting? >> my response was, you know, it happened to mark twain so i quoted mark twain's comment, that rumors of his death demise were greatly exaggerated. >> let's move back to when you were last in my studio. because we had --...
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is financed in part by big investment funds that expect a return. you've put a million dollars into this? >> just over, yes. >> reporter: amy domini manages the sustainability group, a billion-dollar fund for wealthy investors. >> my investors want to be part of the solution. that's... that's what i attempt to give them. when they call and ask what's their portfolio doing, this is what they're talking about. >> reporter: b.c.c. makes sure clients like the bassilas can afford the lower mortgage and have steady paychecks. monica works at the state department of health. mike is on disability. >> many people that were able to purchase their home back... >> reporter: in a little over a year, b.c.c. has helped 125 boston-area families; only one has defaulted. there will be people who are paying their mortgages who see this and say, "why should those people be helped?" >> i'm hard pressed to see how we're helped as a country by making more people homeless and putting them out of their homes. >> reporter: b.c.c. hopes to roll this program out nationally. in
is financed in part by big investment funds that expect a return. you've put a million dollars into this? >> just over, yes. >> reporter: amy domini manages the sustainability group, a billion-dollar fund for wealthy investors. >> my investors want to be part of the solution. that's... that's what i attempt to give them. when they call and ask what's their portfolio doing, this is what they're talking about. >> reporter: b.c.c. makes sure clients like the bassilas can...
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prosecutors messed up big time showing jurors banned video evidence. it's a big goof. the judge said a first-year law student would have known better. we find out in september whether the case will be retried. let's go to pablo torre. this was amazing, the legal wrangling has been going on in this case for years. it's cost taxpayers a lot of money. >> this is incredibly humiliating for federal prosecutes, the government including the fbi, has spent millions of dollars hunting roger clemens and now after day two of his trial for perjury, they need what amounts to a redo, which is obviously far more acceptable in a round of golf than it is in a perjury trial. and the judge, as you said, goes off on the federal prosecutors and for any fans out there who argued and maintained from the start it was a waste of money to prosecute and try baseball players with tax dollars, this is really proof that they were right in the beginning. >> the prosecutor walked out without any comment. really dressed down by the judge. by the way, this wasn't even asked for by the defense, this is
prosecutors messed up big time showing jurors banned video evidence. it's a big goof. the judge said a first-year law student would have known better. we find out in september whether the case will be retried. let's go to pablo torre. this was amazing, the legal wrangling has been going on in this case for years. it's cost taxpayers a lot of money. >> this is incredibly humiliating for federal prosecutes, the government including the fbi, has spent millions of dollars hunting roger...
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it's not going to be that big of a deal. you listen to michele bachmann, a ton of these house republicans, just shut the thing down. that's the only way you get to do this thing. it's sinful to vote for this. by the way, a majority of the country, a majority of country says that they're not in favor of increasing the debt limit. that's just a fact. >> and you also have people like nancy pelosi saying that entitlement reform is absolutely off the table even after the president of her own party put it on the table. so there are people in both parties who are playing games with this. i just think it's a shame that a deal that would have both raised revenue, not tax rates, and reformed entitlements and cut spending has been on the table in washington, d.c. for six months and it hasn't gotten done. >> well, i don't know of a single democrat that said that that is no big deal if they don't raise the debt ceiling. >> nancy pelosi and others said you can't touch entitlements. >> i don't know a single democrat that said it's not a bi
it's not going to be that big of a deal. you listen to michele bachmann, a ton of these house republicans, just shut the thing down. that's the only way you get to do this thing. it's sinful to vote for this. by the way, a majority of the country, a majority of country says that they're not in favor of increasing the debt limit. that's just a fact. >> and you also have people like nancy pelosi saying that entitlement reform is absolutely off the table even after the president of her own...
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the big rig's driver was not hurt. authorities are trying to figure out if it was the shuttle driver who ran a red light causing that accident. >>> at this hour another round of white house meetings is under way to try to resolve the debt ceiling dispute. there's new word in just the past hour of a possible bipartisan compromise in the works. that comes after a testy exchange between the president and a republican the last night. >> we have been in this fight together. any suggestion that the role that eric has played in these meetings has been anything less than helpful is wrong. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner rushed to defend eric canter. canter pushed the president so much that the president called out, eric don't call my bluff. >> this is for laws that are due for preexisting obligations such as social security, like the troops we have on the field. like our border security agents, our fbi agents. >> tonight there are reports that the democratic and republican leaders are working on a compromise. it would
the big rig's driver was not hurt. authorities are trying to figure out if it was the shuttle driver who ran a red light causing that accident. >>> at this hour another round of white house meetings is under way to try to resolve the debt ceiling dispute. there's new word in just the past hour of a possible bipartisan compromise in the works. that comes after a testy exchange between the president and a republican the last night. >> we have been in this fight together. any...
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. >> it was a really big shock. just a really big shock. >> there was a lot of texting, no, there was no screaming. there was some cursing. >> some people were freaking out but everybody was pretty calm overall. >> reporter: when you say freaking out, tell us. >> the girl next to me, she was right by the wing and crying and the other guy was trying to jump out of the emergency exit for a little bit, but everybody else was pretty calm. >> reporter: both planes were fully intending to head out of boston. both ended up stuck here. it could have been much worse? >> absolutely and there were kids on board, the kids were terrific. it was very calm, everybody was fine. >> that was wbz's jim armstrong reporting. safety officials hope audio tapes from the control tower will shed some light on how that accident happened. >>> there was another incident in the skies but this one was 240 miles above earth. nasa woke the space shuttle crew late thursday after a computer failure set off alarms. the astronauts aboard "atlantis" wer
. >> it was a really big shock. just a really big shock. >> there was a lot of texting, no, there was no screaming. there was some cursing. >> some people were freaking out but everybody was pretty calm overall. >> reporter: when you say freaking out, tell us. >> the girl next to me, she was right by the wing and crying and the other guy was trying to jump out of the emergency exit for a little bit, but everybody else was pretty calm. >> reporter: both planes...
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it is hard to do a big package. my republican friends have said that they're not willing to do revenues. and they have repeated that on several occasions. my hope, though, is that they're listening not just to lobbyists or special interests here in washington but they're also listening to the american people because it turns out poll after poll, many done by your organizations, show that it's not just democrats who think we need to take a balanced approach, it's republicans as well. the clear majority of republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues. that's not just democrats. that's the majority of republicans. you've got a whole slew of republican officials from previous administrations. you've got a bipartisan commission that has said that we need revenues. so this is not just a democratic understanding. this is an understanding that i think the american people hold, that we should not be asking sacrifices from middle-class folks who ar
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another big crowd gathering. can't wait to get to that. >>> we also have a lot of news this morning. let's get right to that collision on the taxiway in boston last night. hundreds of passengers evacuated after the wing of a delta jumbo jet clipped the tail of another jet just months after a similar collision here in new york and abc's lisa stark is tracking this overnight. good morning, lisa. >> reporter: good morning, george. well, it was two delta flights, both loaded with fuel. ready for takeoff. one rams into the other. it could have been much worse. this photo taken from inside the 767 clearly shows the damage. the wing tip of the jumbo jet sliced apart. the tail of the regional plane badly mangled. >> people were freaking out. the girl next to me was right by the wing was ying. and was trying to jump out of the emergency exit for a little bit. >> everybody said, what happened? >> reporter: it was still light out, around 7:3030ast night when the planes collided. the regional jet apparently turned on to a ta
another big crowd gathering. can't wait to get to that. >>> we also have a lot of news this morning. let's get right to that collision on the taxiway in boston last night. hundreds of passengers evacuated after the wing of a delta jumbo jet clipped the tail of another jet just months after a similar collision here in new york and abc's lisa stark is tracking this overnight. good morning, lisa. >> reporter: good morning, george. well, it was two delta flights, both loaded with...
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i am still pushing for us to achieve a big deal. what i also said to the group is, if we cannot do the biggest deal possible, what's still be ambitious. let's still try to at least get a down payment on deficit reduction. that we can actually accomplish here without huge changes in revenue or significant changes in entitlements, but we could still send a signal that we're serious about this problem. the fallback position and the third option, the least practical is one in which we raise the debt ceiling, but we do not make any progress in revenues or deficit. this problem will continue to plague us for months and years to come. i think it is important for the american people that everyone in this town set politics aside, that everyone sets individual interests aside and try to do some tough things. i have already taken heat from my party for being willing to compromise. my expectation and hope is that everyone in the coming days will be willing to compromise. the last point that i will make, we are obviously running out of time. wha
i am still pushing for us to achieve a big deal. what i also said to the group is, if we cannot do the biggest deal possible, what's still be ambitious. let's still try to at least get a down payment on deficit reduction. that we can actually accomplish here without huge changes in revenue or significant changes in entitlements, but we could still send a signal that we're serious about this problem. the fallback position and the third option, the least practical is one in which we raise the...
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sunrise over the big city. unless you have a big fog bank and then you can't see the fog bank. i have to mention there were records set in california yesterday for the coolest high temperatures ever. fresno was only 85 degrees. 85 and that was the coolest high reading -- hold on. beating the old mark in 1920. i mean if fresno is not hitting 90 in july that tells you how cool it is for us. temperatures stay on the cool side. today low overcast. some areas already get the sun. it will be breezy and below average on the temps. and than sunny breezy to windy. no, ma'am change until maybe middle of next week slight warming around tuesday and wednesday. temperatures are not only the high temps on the cool side the lows are cool. petaluma 44. kenwood 45. mil valley 46. napa 48. morgan hill at 49 degrees. we are stuck in this pattern. the fog works its way in. upper 40s for santa rosa. san rafael 52. san jose at 56. the west wind or west southwest wind continues out to sacramento. look at what is coming down from the gulf of alaska. it will take its place and the beat goes on. i don't
sunrise over the big city. unless you have a big fog bank and then you can't see the fog bank. i have to mention there were records set in california yesterday for the coolest high temperatures ever. fresno was only 85 degrees. 85 and that was the coolest high reading -- hold on. beating the old mark in 1920. i mean if fresno is not hitting 90 in july that tells you how cool it is for us. temperatures stay on the cool side. today low overcast. some areas already get the sun. it will be breezy...
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>> reporter: there's big significance here. june 21st, salem lutheran church in stillwater, minnesota lost two members, michele bachmann and her husband marcus. they were formally released from their membership. church said they hadn't attended for two years, and for all those evangelical conservatives in iowa that could be something that impacts them very directly. as you know, michele bachmann has been a darling of conservative evangelicals for a long time, and if, in fact, she hasn't been attending another church for the past two years, that may not play so well in iowa. >> i was going to ask you, what type of issues do you think this might raise, her leaving the church? >> it certainly raises a lot of questions, and the one we're struggling with is why she left that church. that's something that hasn't quite been answered. the church is part of the wisconsin evangelical lutheran senate. they're the most cynical. they oppose same-sex marriage and abortion and a number of other issues. that could be one of the reasons. michel
>> reporter: there's big significance here. june 21st, salem lutheran church in stillwater, minnesota lost two members, michele bachmann and her husband marcus. they were formally released from their membership. church said they hadn't attended for two years, and for all those evangelical conservatives in iowa that could be something that impacts them very directly. as you know, michele bachmann has been a darling of conservative evangelicals for a long time, and if, in fact, she hasn't...
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the big deal. that is where we are right now and what we need. >> maria, what is the political burden? because, ultimately, all of this is viewed through a political lens. the winners and the losers. >> absolutely. >> who holds the bag? what is the political burden? >> here is the reason i believe that mitchell mcconnell ended up offering his plan. he understands, as well as other republicans who are becoming very nervous about who is going to take the blame if we do go into default, they are understanding republicans will take the blame. what they have not understood up to now when you negotiate you have to put something that is your cow on the table. they haven't done nothing to put their sacred cows on the table. president obama and the democrats have offered up changes in medicare and social security. the sacred cows for american families and don't know that because they understand we are at a crossroads. republicans do not understand that. if we go into default, they will take the blame on thi
the big deal. that is where we are right now and what we need. >> maria, what is the political burden? because, ultimately, all of this is viewed through a political lens. the winners and the losers. >> absolutely. >> who holds the bag? what is the political burden? >> here is the reason i believe that mitchell mcconnell ended up offering his plan. he understands, as well as other republicans who are becoming very nervous about who is going to take the blame if we do go...